On November 1, 2025, the inaugural meeting of the second editorial board of CBRN Defense was held online, during which Prof. Fang Yu was appointed as an academician advisor to the second editorial board, while Assoc. Prof. Liu Taihong was appointed as a young editorial board member, both for a three-year tenure.

The meeting was chaired by Researcher Cao Shuya from the Institute of CBRN Defense at the Academy of Military Sciences. Over 100 participants, including all editorial board members, experts, scholars, and editorial staff, attended the session to discuss the journal’s high-quality development, positioning, and promotion strategies.

CBRN Defense is a natural science journal supervised by the Academy of Military Sciences and published by the Institute of CBRN Defense under the Academy. It primarily publishes original academic papers in the following fields: research on detection, protection, and contamination control technologies for chemical, biological, nuclear, and radioactive substances (CBRN); research on special functional materials; research on soil and water pollution remediation technologies; emergency response technologies for nuclear, biological, and chemical incidents; technical support, testing, and evaluation of chemical defense equipment; and other relevant studies within the CBRN defense discipline.